Kategorie: Saturn

Ten years ago, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft departed planet Earth from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and embarked on a seven-year long, circuitous journey of several billion miles across the solar system to the planet Saturn. To...

A recent analysis of images from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn’s moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon’s “tiger stripe”...

Saturn’s moon Iapetus is one of the most mysterious objects in the Solar System. It’s shaped like a walnut, with a strange ridge that runs along its equator, and it’s got vastly different hemispheres....

Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco is the leader of the Imaging Team for the Cassini mission. She gave an 18 minute talk on the Cassini-Huygens mission and on some of the amazing scientific results from...

Scientists studying data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have discovered what they thought is the origin for one of the more unusual rings surrounding the planet Saturn. In a paper published in the journal “Science”,...

Saturn’s moon Iapetus is one of the strangest objects in our Solar System. Unlike other objects of this size, Iapetus is walnut-shaped, with a clearly defined chain of mountains along its equator. How could...

One of Cassini’s greatest discoveries are the ice geysers pouring out of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Recent research by the NASA/ESA Cassini team suggests that this icy moon isn’t the only geologically-active world orbiting the...

Scientists working with data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft have concluded that one of Saturn’s major rings is composed of clumps of material rather than a more uniform distribution of smaller objects. Planetary scientists used...

Since the twin Voyager spacecraft flew past Saturn’s moon Titan, scientists have been excited about what its hazy atmosphere can tell us about the earliest days of our own planet. The Voyagers discovered that...